Manatū Taonga/Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Media Release
October 4, 2012
A larger-than-life collaboration
between tape artists Erica Duthie and Struan Ashby and poet Kate Camp will greet
hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, where New Zealand is
the guest of honour.
The “Tagträumer/Daydreamers”
project will see a 12 by 5 metre mural, created entirely from blue masking
tape, covering the Stadtbucherei (the central library) in Frankfurt .
Poet Kate Camp will write, read
and publish poems based on the mural as it develops.
The mural and the poems will be
inspired by the public whose portraits in tape will appear in the mural, and
whose donated words and ideas will be incorporated into the poems.
“This will be a living, growing
artwork,” says artist Erica Duthie. “Like a fairy tale forest it will grow up
magically over the five days and then vanish overnight.”
Duthie and Ashby developed their
tape drawings as a playful form of street art that exists only in the moment.
The works are always removed within 24 hours of completion.
The pair has produced their
massive wall artworks in the US ,
Korea and recently on the
outside of Wellington ’s
Te Papa museum.
“We love being inspired by people we meet
during the day and incorporating them into our work,” says Struan Ashby.
The project is the first time the
pair has collaborated with a writer.
Poet Kate Camp, who has held the
Creative New Zealand Berlin Writer’s Residency since September 2011, is looking
forward to the public collaboration, in contrast to the private work of writing
poetry.
“Having inspiration bouncing back
and forth, not just with Erica and Struan, but with all the fair visitors, will
be amazing,” says Camp.
“With people from over 130
countries coming to the fair, it really is going to be like something out of
the Arabian Nights: so many languages, so many cultures, so many stories.”
The Tagträumer/Daydreamers
project is supported by the Goethe Institut, Wellington ,
Publishers Association New Zealand, Denis and Verna Adam through the Adam
Foundation, Icebreaker, and the New Zealand
embassy in Berlin .
Photos, videos, and poems will be
uploaded daily to
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